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Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.

Howard Schultz

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Howard Schultz
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 19
Businessman
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Brooklyn
New York
Howard D. Schultz
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